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- Comment on Lemmy is the best social media 3 days ago:
Don’t give them any ideas!
- Comment on Looks like paradise 4 days ago:
looks like purgatory
Having visited with family that “retired out to the country”, I can tell you that it feels like purgatory as well.
- Comment on Everything old is new again. 5 days ago:
they’re just mad because they didn’t think to do what Uber is doing and now they’re dying.
That and they’re mad because their virtual monopoly status didn’t protect them from market disruption. They just sat back, assuming that there was no way these rogue taxi services were going to evade the law for long. The fact that an entire industry acted on such a bad take suggests, to me, a lot of anti-competitive bullshit behind the scenes.
Anyway, I agree. All they had to do was either add rideshare-like features to their service, merge with rideshare services, or become one themselves. The investment capital was clearly there, and making a modernization pitch with brand recognition of an established taxi company would have been a slam-dunk.
- Comment on Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission 5 days ago:
Just automatically started uploading everything on my hard drive to an account I didn’t set up
Wait, what?
- Comment on Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission 5 days ago:
Real question here: has anyone else had luck side-stepping the Live365 signup during/after install? I’ve done this, and I’m very confused that more people haven’t.
- Comment on xkcd #2932: Driving PSA 1 month ago:
This goes especially for EVs. Wind resistance really chews up your power budget once you’re above 55mph or so. May as well run the heater with the windows down at that point.
- Comment on xkcd #2932: Driving PSA 1 month ago:
Rules of the road:
- Be predictable
- Nobody else is predictable
- Everyone is indifferent to your existence; you are merely a car to them
- Your phone wants to kill you - leave it alone
- The faster you go, the less of a difference 5mph makes - be safe, not fast
- FFS maintain your damn car
- Comment on xkcd #2932: Driving PSA 1 month ago:
Runner up is the assassin that seizes the traffic circle, instigating collisions behind them, just to let someone in out of turn. Only their MO is to delay or prevent a destiny altering meeting of some kind; an advanced tactic.
- Comment on Academic Rizzlers 1 month ago:
I’ll do you one better.
Not only is the language itself evolving, but we acquire more and more idioms and jargon as society moves through the industrial age. Right now, english has this playful mishmash of nautical, railroad, and now computing idioms reflecting each technological epoch’s mark on speech over the last 200+ years.
- Comment on Academic Rizzlers 1 month ago:
I honestly love this approach for eye-grabbing titles to otherwise dull topics.
If there’s a problem, yo I’ll solve it: Application of Large Language Models for resolving deep problem sets.
- Comment on Calculus made easy 1 month ago:
To be fair, a formula that foreboding should only be approached indirectly, no matter what you’re armed with. I recommend sneaking up behind it.
- Comment on Stuck 1 month ago:
- Comment on epidemiology 1 month ago:
Glove and Boots did a fantastic take on this very concept. youtu.be/75nBenOWul0?si=4lTY2at2aHtaqN-F&t=144
- Comment on Boston Dynamics introduces a fully electric humanoid robot that “exceeds human performance” 2 months ago:
can also get a gun and blast these things before it gets out of hand
Honestly, I get the distinct impression that everything in the hunting section at your local Walmart is going to be woefully ineffective. May I recommend a defensive position with difficult to traverse stairs?
- Comment on "Yeah, but what if we used AI?" 2 months ago:
This is basically just as opaque as a charity or HOA, with different steps. Which is great unless your community is poor.
My contention with this concept is that with taxes, I can vote for people that manage both the money gathering rules and how it is spent. That and the money typically works in a much larger pool spread across a wide range of socioeconomic groups, which can vastly improve its reach and capability. On top of all that, it’s also transparent. My guess is this has no such features.
- Comment on Progress! 2 months ago:
Sorry, best I can do is knitting and crochet. But think of all the sweaters and socks you’ll have.
- Comment on Why there are 861 roguelike deckbuilders on Steam all of a sudden 2 months ago:
It’s even easier than that. Both of these genres have design features that require minimal balancing, making for an even faster dev cycle.
Roguelikes side-step the need for traditional game balance by providing meta progression and building inevitable-death-by-impossible-odds into the core game. For Roguelikes that actually have an ending, all the developer needs to do is provide enough meta progression perks to overcome the game’s peak difficulty, for even the worst of players. Everyone else gets bragging rights for beating the game faster than that. Either way, the lack of balance and “fairness” in the core design are features, not flaws.
Deck builders follow in Magic The Gathering’s footsteps: you never need to fully balance it. Ever. The random draw mechanisms, combined with a deep inventory of resource and item/creature/action cards, make it unlikely that a player gets an overpowered hand all the time. Pepper a few ridiculously overpowered cards in there, and it just feels more fun. Plus, if you keep the gravy train going with regular add-ons, the lack of balance is even further masked by all the possible choices. And yes, some player will min/max a deck at great personal expense and wipe the floor with their opponents because it was never fair in the first place, and doing so is a feature.
- Comment on Oh the wonders of technology 2 months ago:
You jest, but the industry was pretty close to having something like that. VHS-C format tapes are the key, as they were used in lightweight camcorders back in the 90’s. The viewfinder used an active screen, so this could be used for playback anywhere.
If we ditched the optics and stretch the definition of “pocket”, this is basically that: www.ebay.com/itm/386925509292?chn=ps&mkevt=1&mkci…
- Comment on Most useless superhero accessory 2 months ago:
I dunno. I think this is good for Flash. To paraphrase SolidJJ:
Flash: So, to you, I’m moving faster than the speed of sound, circling the globe. But to me, that’s walking. Just. Walking. For like a year.
- Comment on 5.25-inch floppy disks expected to help run San Francisco trains until 2030 2 months ago:
More like: it’s eventually going to break your weekend or even your whole week, but you don’t get to pick which one.
- Comment on 5.25-inch floppy disks expected to help run San Francisco trains until 2030 2 months ago:
My theory: the system they purchased was based on an older and proven design for railway automation and control. Add to that however said company/contractor was set up to support their customers (e.g. OS only ships on floppy). That said, I agree that ten years without so much as a drive upgrade is a bit long in the tooth for something that can kill people or become a logistic and/or political disaster if it malfunctions.
- Comment on 5.25-inch floppy disks expected to help run San Francisco trains until 2030 2 months ago:
This is interesting. The longevity of this legacy tech may be secure if they use the right channels.
SoCal happens to have a very active retro-computing scene right now, much of which is in the bay area. If they can breathe life into an Apollo Guidance Computer, bog-standard floppy drives will be a piece of cake.
On the other hand, the same scene has modern emulation for just about every (popular) legacy media format imaginable. Upgrading the drives to use SD cards is something they could buy off the shelf today: Apple II, C64, Tandy, misc. So there’s no reason to suffer through hardware failures when more reliable tech is available.
There are even commercial options out there. Example: www.shopfloorautomations.com/…/floppy-connect/
- Comment on Jesus, help me! - No! 2 months ago:
I asked it for a colourised photo jounalistic footage, it decided that style. .
Nice. I’ll have to remember that prompt. That’s useful.
That throne the pope has feels like some sort of SCP.
(now you’re speaking my language)
Either it’s a psychic amplifier of some kind and/or the throne itself is the inanimate-yet-sentient head of the papacy. Either way, The Vatican has it “contained” but the SCP Foundation does not approve of their methods.
- Comment on Jesus, help me! - No! 2 months ago:
Flood water’s risin’. Clearly, they’re headed to Noah’s boat. That and Korean bus-drivers were deemed the only truly selfless and chosen ones for the rapture to come.
- Comment on Jesus, help me! - No! 2 months ago:
the feed is full of those AI Jesus pictures like this and thousands of comments saying “Amen”.
I’m worried. Should I be worried?
2000+ years ago, literature didn’t exist in the way it does today. A book was only writable/readable to those that were literate, whom were in the overwhelming minority. I can appreciate how such an incomprehensible thing, said to contain the very word of god, might be considered practically magic in its own right. Today, all that’s demystified mostly because nearly all of us understand that writing is just a form of technology as small children.
Now, we have a brand new incomprehensible thing that can churn out religious iconography with the push of a button.
- Comment on Jesus, help me! - No! 2 months ago:
Did you choose the 1960’s style color processing, or did midjourney?
Chronovisor the Vatican has hidden away.
I never once considered that the Vatican might have actual powerful artifacts and/or SCP-level objects tucked away.
- Comment on humility 2 months ago:
In this paper I will explore the premise of misinformation and it’s impact on coursework, specifically long-form essays. This work will be self-illustrating in support of this thesis, as the author will take on the voice of someone that has a minimal and flawed understanding of the paper’s core concept.
- Comment on humility 2 months ago:
Hey, I understand that reference. Nice job! 0/10
- Comment on ))<>(( 2 months ago:
Also: sometimes, a mathematician just has to invent some concept or syntax to convey something unconventional. The specific use of subscript/superscript, whatever ‘phi’ is being used for, etc. on whatever paper you’re reading doesn’t have to correlate to how other work uses the same concepts. It’s bad form, but sometimes its needed, and if useful enough is added to the general canon of what we call “math”. Meanwhile, you can encapsulate and obfuscate things in software, sure, but you can always get down to the bedrock of what the language supports; there’s no inventing anything new.
- Comment on ))<>(( 2 months ago:
Further up the thread, someone mentioned that writing good software is about communicating concepts to people, first and foremost.
This, code obfuscation, is what it looks like to communicate exclusively to the compiler instead.